June 7, 2008
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Paganism is still alive and well, as anyone living within America should be truthful enough to admit.
Celebrities are the gods who all congregate in Hollywood, their Mt. Olympus.
They are decadent creatures, corrupt, jealous, lustful, vain, and angry, displaying their rage at each other and sometimes at us mortals. And yet despite their thoroughly depraved minds, they have bodies that display the height of beauty, seemingly flawless paragons of the human physique. They copulate with one another and thus bear further divine offspring, and sometimes have relations with us mortals and bear children among us, thus producing half-gods.
But we mortals mirror the ancient Greek, too, for despite the moral shortcomings of the celebrities we still worship them as gods. In our boring, daily lives as peasants we read and eagerly talk with other mortals about the stories that our primary authorities on the gods have made up about them, though we always accept the stories as being completely real. Our belief in the gods and their wild tales remains firm even though none of us have ever trekked to their residency to confirm their existence, much less the fanciful tales attributed to them.
But our imaginations like it better that way, where these beautiful yet depraved people actually exist and do all these fantastic things we hear about. It is better than thinking about gas prices, anyways.
Farewell, fellow pagans. See you next temple.
Comments (9)
darn celebrities
Hail Tom Cruise! He is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard! Lol.
Nice entry. It does seem rather fitting to put celebrities in that light especially since they’re glamorized so much. Everytime Jennifer Lopez takes a crap, there’s a tabloid about it. Lol… I’m exaggerating, but it is a sad fact that people that are virtually unimportant are given praise more than, say, scientists and philosophers. It’s a sad world we live in.
You are totally right! Awesome post. Excellent observation. Man, we humans just don’t change…
Wow. Great post.
I’d prefer not to think about them, although I do wonder about what it would be like.
Good point–there are definite similarites, aren’t there?
Well written. Overwhelms me how ridiculous we are. A celebrity looks our way and ‘all the peasants rejoice’. So… silly.
Nah, no grandiose parties. In fact, he lives there alone, although his kids come visit sometimes. Hmm. I find it so wasteful and pointless to have all that room for one person. Even for 5 people. You’d have to have about…12 kinds to justify a house like that.
I see, I see….I’m sorry my voice was such a horrible shock to you. I suppose I could get a transplant, although I hardly find that a worthy cause when you really should just suck it up and get used to it.
You’re voice was actually pretty much exactly how I’d imagined. Maybe a tad deeper, but mostly right on the money.
Nice post, btw. I hipe you don’t include political figures in that mix, although knowing you…you probably do. LOL. But I suppose it’s true for alot of them it *does* ring true. But anyways, good observations.
“Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.” ~Camille Paglia
It’s all very sad if you ask me.